Amnesty Again

[BoogyMan]

Thoughts?


Source: Link (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjhiMWMxMThjYjMyYmJjN2NmYWNiMzExN2M2YjkzNWU=)

By Kate O'Beirne

Determined amnesty advocates who lost the fight for “comprehensive” immigration reform three months ago are now attempting to grant illegal aliens “amnesty on the installment plan.” Illegal aliens who entered the U.S. before age 16 and who have lived here illegally for five consecutive years will be the first to qualify under a bill the Senate is expected to vote on this week. Senator Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) will offer his Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act as an amendment to the defense-authorization bill. Later in the month, senators will attempt to extend amnesty to agricultural workers.

Under the DREAM Act, applicants for amnesty who claim to be enrolled in a community college, technical school, or university will receive immediate “conditional” legal status. Sound familiar? The Migration Policy Institute estimates that about 1.3 million illegal aliens will be eligible for the amnesty. Because the act’s provisions are retroactive, additional illegal aliens will also qualify. Along with illegal aliens who have graduated from high school or completed a G.E.D., any illegal alien, regardless of age, who initially came here illegally before age 16 and meets the education provisions qualifies for a green card and eventual citizenship. As green-card holders, they can all sponsor their illegal alien parents for green cards. To accommodate DREAM Act aliens and their parents, numerical limits on green cards are lifted.

The DREAM Act also makes illegal aliens, present and future, eligible for discounted, in-state tuition rates by repealing the federal law that prohibits such a benefit for illegal aliens, unless it is also extended to citizens and lawful residents. Unlike legal foreign students, illegal aliens will also qualify for federal financial assistance.

The DREAM Act enjoys bipartisan support. It’s backed by Senators Clinton, Obama, and Kennedy and its Republican co-sponsors include Senators Hagel, Lugar, Crapo, and Craig. Senator McCain supports the bill even though last November over 70 percent of Arizona voters opposed a proposition that would have qualified illegal aliens for in-state tuition.

“Comprehensive” immigration reform included both beefed-up enforcement measures and amnesty for illegal aliens. The reform failed because public support for the former was overwhelmed by public opposition to the latter. “Comprehensive” reform may be dead, but amnesty is very much alive.

[lily]

The DREAM Act also makes illegal aliens, present and future, eligible for discounted, in-state tuition rates by repealing the federal law that prohibits such a benefit for illegal aliens, unless it is also extended to citizens and lawful residents. Unlike legal foreign students, illegal aliens will also qualify for federal financial assistance.

Cripes.......let's just give this country away

[Anti-Racism]

Cripes.......let's just give this country away


It seems to me that the "NWO" (globalist-corporate-megastate?) is trying to eliminate the middle class... with a cheaper, more unit-replaceable alternative.

I've seen it in technology. Positions that two years ago went to $90,000/yr computer programmers have been handed to $50,000/yr immigrant workers, and YES there's a big difference in quality.

They hate the middle class. Why?

[preservanation]

Yeah, I heard about this.
The upfront tact was soundly defeated by public opinion, politicians can't have that. No Way.
So now they are stying to do the same thing in bits and pieces, under the radar so we won't notice. Classic lib, (and lib Republican) incrementalism.
Yup, our democracy at work.
What a bunch of snakes.
Throw 'em out!

[lily]

It seems to me that the "NWO" (globalist-corporate-megastate?) is trying to eliminate the middle class... with a cheaper, more unit-replaceable alternative.

I've seen it in technology. Positions that two years ago went to $90,000/yr computer programmers have been handed to $50,000/yr immigrant workers, and YES there's a big difference in quality.

They hate the middle class. Why?


You won't get any argument from me that the middle class is dying. Like I said in another thread, I don't know what this country is going to do, as the middle class is pretty much what holds this country up.


I've seen it in technology. Positions that two years ago went to $90,000/yr computer programmers have been handed to $50,000/yr immigrant workers, and YES there's a big difference in quality.

It's the same with anything. Auto workers especially. Get rid of the older workers that get paid more and get benefits and hire in new workers, with less benefits and pay........odd though, even with less benefits and pay and most of the cars being made in Mexico and beyond.........the price hasn't canged.

[heyjude]

The immigration bill that was defeated had bi-partisan support. It was the screams of the American people that killed it.

The third world countries have proved a middle class in not needed. The rich and the poor. Works for the Bushies. Works for most Republicans. If we get another Republican president, you can see it work in America. The groundwork has been laid.